Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands chords by Johnny Tillotson

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

C#C#  C minorCm  C#C#  C minorCm


🎸 Verse 1:
C#C#             G#b           C#C#
When I was a little boy my daddy used to say to me son
               G#b          C#C#   C#7C#7 C7sus4C7sus4 C#C#
We got a lotta big land and a lotta hard work to be done
G#b            C#C#
Go an' get your marbles, put 'em in the house
F#7F#7              C#C#  C#7C#7
Tear down your castles in the sand
  G#b             C#C#
And come with your pappy to the cotton patch
  G#b          C minorCm
And get a little dirt on your hands

🎸 Chorus:
C#C#             C minorCm
Get a little dirt on your hands boy
C#C#             C minorCm
Get a little dirt on your hands
     C#C#           G#b   C*
If you're wanna grow up to be a big big man
      G#b            C minorCm
(You gotta) get a little dirt on your hands
G#b            C#C#
Get a little dirt on your hands


🎸 Verse 2:
    C#C#           G#b             C#C#
Well I got to be twenty and I thought I was a pretty big wheel
     C#C#              G#b         C#C#   C#7C#7 C7sus4C7sus4 C#C#
Left the country for the city, met a fella with a shady deal
    G#b         C#C#
He said hold up the tavern take all the money
F#7F#7         C#C#  C#7C#7
 Run as fast as you can
     G#b           C#C#
If you're gonna get along in this big bad world
     G#b            C minorCm
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands


🎸 Chorus:
C#C#             C minorCm
Get a little dirt on your hands boy
C#C#             C minorCm
Get a little dirt on your hands
     C#C#           G#b   C*
If you're wanna grow up to be a big big man
      G#b            C minorCm
(You gotta) get a little dirt on your hands
G#b            C#C#
Get a little dirt on your hands

🎸 Verse 3:
     C#C#              G#b           C#C#
Well it's four in the mornin' and the warden is a callin' my name
                   G#b            C#C#   C#7C#7 C7sus4C7sus4 C#C#
Says he's teaching me a lesson, gonna send me out to work in the rain
   G#b         C#C#
Hey, dig that ditch boy, chop that corn
 F#7F#7         C#C#   C#7C#7
I gotta make you understand
     G#b              C#C#
That the only way to straighten out a guy like you
   G#b            C minorCm
Is to get a little dirt on your hands


🎸 Outro:
C#C#             C minorCm
Get a little dirt on your hands boy
C#C#             C minorCm
Get a little dirt on your hands
     C#C#           G#b   C*
If you're wanna grow up to be a big big man
      G#b            C minorCm
(You gotta) get a little dirt on your hands
G#b            C#C#   C minorCm  C*
Get a little dirt on your hands